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In the same year, 1890, appeared FD 's two adventure stories written with young people in mind: Aniwee; or, The Warrior Queen, A Tale of the Araucanian Indians, and The Young Castaways; or, The...

She had already begun and abandoned one comedy and one tragedy.The Double Disguise, was published in a Juvenilia Press edition in 2014, edited by Christine Alexander and Ryan Twomey , who identified...

The Bodleian Library has recently acquired a later edition of one of these tales, Vivian, with ME 's autograph revisions in ink and comments in pencil by the recipient of the volume, Mary Sneyd

This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane

ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.

After a writing career of more than forty-five years, ME published her last novel, Two Lost Sheep, under this usual pseudonym.

One more dramatic work was her adaptation of a play by Pierre Loti entitled The Daughter of Heaven. Terence de Vere White says that she was this play's translator as well as its adaptor....

What she translated was the accounts of countries and continents from Ortelius 's Le Théatre du monde, or rather from L'Epitome du Théatre du monde, an atlas which interleaves its maps with pages...

The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...

Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland.

This is the first item in her Collected Works, which divides her life into four periods and treats within each period speeches (where they exist), letters, poems, and prayers. This edition excludes her translations...

Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , knew Marguerite well and owned a copy of her book, which may have been used for this translation. Elizabeth writes merely that she has translated this little book out of...

The Religious Tract Society published many collections and leaflets of Elliott's poems after her death, all of which are now obscure. Sixteen Poetical Leaflets appeared in 1872,

In 1709 (the same year that she published her version of Ælfric , An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory) EE began work on a project of female history. Of this...

The single homily appeared as a costly production, with a two-colour title-page, commissioned illustrations, and specially designed type to encompass the several languages necessary. The original Old English and Elstob's translation appear on facing pages...